Eco-Arts Weekend Seminar
The public is invited to join the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute and the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre for a free weekend seminar celebrating and showcasing eco-arts in the Blue Mountains and beyond.
Project participant Monica Nugent hugging a tree.
Picture credit: Kate Reid.
DATES AND TIMES:
Saturday 23 October 10am -11.30am
Sunday 24 October 10am - 11.30am
Zoom links provided via Eventbrite booking.
ABOUT THE EVENT
The Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute in collaboration with Blue Mountains Cultural Centre is hosting a free weekend of online seminars celebrating and showcasing the eco-arts in the Blue Mountains and beyond.
These seminars will include the launch of the online Recovery exhibition - the culmination of a creative collaboration between artists, writers and local citizen scientists conducted throughout the lockdown, exploring human responses to and the recovery of our natural world after the devastating fires of 2019/20.
PROGRAM
Saturday 23 October 10am -11.30am - Planetary Health and the Arts
Exploring the big picture, this session examines the theoretical and the philosophical importance of the arts in communicating ecological science.
David King, son of Aunty Mary King, Gundungurra Aboriginal elder, and member of The Gully Traditional Owners: Welcome and acknowledgements
Lis Bastian, Blue Mountains City Council: The role of arts in the Planetary Health Initiative
Sabrina Roesner, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre: Embedding eco sustainability within the arts
David Curtis, Eco Arts Australis, Ecologist and Musician: The role of the arts in shaping environmental behaviour
Barbara Lepani, Social and Cultural Innovator: The Wild Mountain Collective, Building on the Songlines Tradition of Australia’s First Nation’s Cultures.
Paul Brown, Arts Program Leader Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute: Arts-Science-Environment; Methodologies, BMWHI Eco-Arts initiative and Recovery Project
Bonita Ely, Interdisciplinary Artist, Associate Professor UNSW: Without Water There is No Life
Sunday 24 October 10am - 11:30am - The Eco-Arts in Practice
A showcase of ecological art from practitioners in the Blue Mountains and beyond, including an exploration of works from the BMWHI Recovery creative arts project.
Ian RT Colless, First Nations Artist and Dancer from the Dharabuladh (Therabluat) clan of the Gundungurra people: The relationship between Country, culture, arts & self.
Cheryle Yin-Lo, Photographer, Printmaker and Community Cultural Development Worker: The Power of Creative Arts in Combined Environmental Knowledge making
Jon Rose, Musician, Artist and recipient of the Don Banks Award: Great Fences of Australia.
Freedom Wilson, Printmaker, Artist, Collaborator: Mapping Ecological Change With Printmaking & The Recovery Print Project collaboration.
Ian Brown OAM, Photographer, National Fire Medal recipient & former National Parks fire manager: Nature photography as dissent
Hollis Taylor, Zoömusicologist, and Ornithologist, ARC Future Fellow at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Absolute Bird, Celebrating Avian Aesthetics
Penelope Cain, Artist with a research science background, working interdisciplinary at the science-art interstitium: Lyrebirds, The song historians